Housing Design and Society in Amsterdam - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Housing Design and Society in Amsterdam write by Nancy Stieber. This book was released on 1998-07-20. Housing Design and Society in Amsterdam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the 1999 Spiro Kostof Book Award from the Society of Architectural Historians. During the early 1900s, Amsterdam developed an international reputation as an urban mecca when invigorating reforms gave rise to new residential neighborhoods encircling the city's dispirited nineteenth-century districts. This new housing, built primarily with government subsidy, not only was affordable but also met rigorous standards of urban planning and architectural design. Nancy Stieber explores the social and political developments that fostered this innovation in public housing. Drawing on government records, professional journals, and polemical writings, Stieber examines how government supported large-scale housing projects, how architects like Berlage redefined their role as architects in service to society, and how the housing occupants were affected by public debates about working-class life, the cultural value of housing, and the role of art in society. Stieber emphasizes the tensions involved in making architectural design a social practice while she demonstrates the success of this collective enterprise in bringing about effective social policy and aesthetic progress.
Critical Realism and Housing Research
Critical Realism and Housing Research - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Critical Realism and Housing Research write by Julie M. Lawson. This book was released on 2006. Critical Realism and Housing Research available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Critical Realism and Housing Research
Critical Realism and Housing Research - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Critical Realism and Housing Research write by Julie Lawson. This book was released on 2013-01-11. Critical Realism and Housing Research available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the nineteenth century various housing solutions have evolved, such as sprawling Australian home ownership and compact Dutch social rental housing. This phenomenon cannot be adequately explained with simple descriptions of key events, politics and housing outcomes. Critical Realism and Housing Studies pushes debate forward, arguing that a new ontological perspective is required to address fundamental issues in housing and comparative research. This book is clearly organized into three parts which: evaluate ontological and methodological alternatives for comparative housing research provide two historical case studies inspired by critical realist ontology compare the causal tendencies that explain diverging housing pathways in Australia and the Netherlands. Lawson proposes that we turn to critical realism for the solution. From this perspective the causal tendencies of complex, open and structured housing phenomena are highlighted. With this insight we are able to extract the key social arrangements which promote different housing solutions from the historical case studies. Social arrangements which are found to influence alternative pathways in housing history concern the property rights, circuit of savings and investment, as well as labour and welfare relations. As they develop differently over time and space they affect where, when and how housing solutions develop.
Sitte, Hegemann and the Metropolis
Sitte, Hegemann and the Metropolis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sitte, Hegemann and the Metropolis write by Charles Bohl. This book was released on 2009-06-02. Sitte, Hegemann and the Metropolis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. These essays, from leading names in the field, weave together the parallels and differences between the past and present of civic art. Offering prospects for the first decades of the twenty-first century, the authors open up a broad international dialogue on civic art, which relates historical practice to the contemporary meaning of civic art and its application to community building within today’s multi-cultural modern cities. The volume brings together the rich perspectives on the thought, practice and influence of leading figures from the great era of civic art that began in the nineteenth century and blossomed in the early twentieth century as documented in the works of Werner Hegemann and his contemporaries and considered fundamental to contemporary practice.
Homeownership, Renting and Society
Homeownership, Renting and Society - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Homeownership, Renting and Society write by Sebastian Kohl. This book was released on 2017-04-07. Homeownership, Renting and Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On the eve of the financial crisis, the USA was inhabited by almost 70 percent homeowning households, in comparison to about 45 percent in Germany. Homeownership, Renting and Society presents new evidence showing that this homeownership gap already existed between American and German cities around 1900. Existing explanations based on culture, government housing policy or typical socio-economic factors have difficulties in accounting for these long-term cross-country differences. Using historical case studies on Germany and the USA, the book identifies three institutional domains on the supply-side of the housing market – urban land, housing finance and construction – that set countries on different housing trajectories and subsequently established differences that were hard to reverse in later periods. Further chapters generalize the argument across other OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries and extend the explanation to cover historical differences in homeownership ideology and horizontal property institutions. This enlightening volume also puts forward path-dependence theories in housing studies, connects housing with vast urban-history and political-economy literature and offers comprehensive insights about the case of a tenant’s country which contradicts the tendency towards universal homeownership. Providing an all-new historic-institutionalist explanation of the German–American homeownership gap, this title will be of interest to postgraduate students and scholars interested in fields including: Housing Studies, Sociology, Urban History, Political Economy, Social Policy and Geography. It may also be of interest to those working in housing field organizations and ministries.
